Playing Tetris on a Building

Some folks at MIT hacked a building to play Tetris on the side of it.

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Frogger Using Real-time 5th Ave Traffic

5th Ave Frogger is a hacked version of Frogger pulling in real-time 5th Ave traffic as game data. If you’re in New York this weekend, you can play.

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Car Pong Anyone?

Hold the beer and check out BBDO Germany’s Smart eBall installation for the third generation Smart car.
Cars play pong against each other to showcase the road responsiveness of this next gen version of the car.

Light-painting wifi

This project illuminates the flow of invisible wifi networks. A wifi measuring rod lights up depending on the strength of wifi signals, and long-exposure photographs capture the light’s as the rod moves through space.

Musical House

Roof-mounted sensors translate light, rain, wind and thunder inputs to generate an impromptu musical score.

Drawing its sounds directly from the elements, no day’s synthesizer-style music is the same — who knew lightning could sound like reverb and that moonlight purrs?

Another take on a musical house from the artist Swoon: http://kck.st/lDCdCT 

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Finding your way…

Two mobile apps for navigating the city in two very different ways:

Embark – maps plus some more hand-holding (i.e. alerts, underground access)

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Serendipitor – maps plus simple instructions to follow along the way — for the more whimsical commuter

Fühl-o-meter – Public Face

Fühl-o-meter assesses the sentiment of peoples faces’ and projects the ambient mood of the city through a smiley face atop a tower.

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Make Real Beats

Collect sounds from everyday life and use this app to make music with them!

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Kinect DJ Maxx

Using Kinect, Romain Dumaine controls sound with gestures with an aim to enhance interaction between a DJ and the crowd.

Kinecthacks.com showcases other kinect/sound experiments.

Augmented City

Keiichi Matsuda imagines what it would be like when digital layers of information converge with the physical environment – no device required. (Best viewed in 3D if you have 3D glasses handy)